A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display.
While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper,
“I’ll have a C-monkey please.” The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage
at the side of the shop and took out a monkey.
He fit a collar and leash,handed it to the customer, saying,
“That’ll be $5000.” The customer paid and walked out with his monkey.
Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said, “That was a
very expensive monkey. Why did it cost so much?”
The shopkeeper answered, “Ah, that monkey can program in C - very fast,
tight code, no bugs, well worth the money.”
The tourist looked at the monkey in another cage. “That one’s even more
expensive! $10,000! What does it do?”
“Oh, that one’s a C++ monkey; it can manage object-oriented programming,
Visual C++, even some Java. All the really useful stuff,” said the
shopkeeper.
Then the tourist saw anonther cage with a monkey in it. “And this one costs
$ 20,000! What’s so special about this one?”
“Well, that’s the ORACLE monkey; It is an absolute database guru, can
administrate all kinds of databases and can create applications in just
about no time.”
The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in a
cage of its own. The price tag around its neck read $50,000.
He gasped to the shopkeeper, “That one costs more than all the other put
together!
What on earth does it do?”
The shopkeeper replied, “Well, I haven’t actually seen it do anything, but
the other monkeys call him the project manager.”
Umer, the Pakistani Brain of Austria
